Historical Archaeology

This volume offers lively current debates and case studies in
historical archaeology selected from around the world, including
North America, Latin America, Africa, the Pacific, and Europe.

• Authored by 19 experts in the field.

• Explores how historical archaeologists think about their work,
  piecing together information from both material culture and
  documents in an attempt to understand the lives of the people and
  societies they study.

• Engages with current theory in an accessible manner.

• Truly global in its approach but avoids subsuming local
  experiences of people into global patterns.

• Summarizes not only the current state of historical
  archaeology, but also sets the course for the field in decades to
  come.

Auteur
Martin Hall is Deputy Vice Chancellor and former Professor of Historical Archaeology, University of Cape Town.

Stephen W. Silliman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Texte du rabat
In Historical Archaeology, readers will find lively current debates and case studies in historical archaeology from North America, Latin America, Africa, the Pacific, and Europe. Written by experts in the field, this volume explores how historical archaeologists think about their work and how they piece together information from both material culture and documents to create an understanding of the lives and struggles of people who lived during the course of the last several centuries. Although examining wide-reaching issues of international significance and impact, Historical Archaeology does not subsume local experiences of people into global patterns; instead, it examines the character of local identities and lives.The book serves not only to summarize the current state of historical archaeology, but also to set the course for the field in decades to come.

Résumé
This volume offers lively current debates and case studies in historical archaeology selected from around the world, including North America, Latin America, Africa, the Pacific, and Europe.

• Authored by 19 experts in the field.
• Explores how historical archaeologists think about their work, piecing together information from both material culture and documents in an attempt to understand the lives of the people and societies they study.
• Engages with current theory in an accessible manner.
• Truly global in its approach but avoids subsuming local experiences of people into global patterns.
• Summarizes not only the current state of historical archaeology, but also sets the course for the field in decades to come.

Contenu
List of Figures. Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction: Archaeology of the Modern World. (Martin Hall and Stephen W. Silliman).

Part I: Dimensions of Practice.

2. Environments of History: Biological Dimensions of Historical Archaeology. (Stephen A. Mrozowski).

3. Material Culture and Text: Exploring the Spaces Within and Between. (Patricia Galloway).

4. The Place of Space: Architecture, Landscape, and Social Life. (Elizabeth P. Pauls).

5. Critical Archaeology: Politics Past and Present. (Matthew M. Palus , Mark P. Leone and Matthew D. Cochran).

Part II: Themes in Interpretation.

6. Engendered Archaeology: Women, Men, and Others. (Barbara L. Voss).

7. Ideology and the Material Culture of Life and Death. (Heather Burke).

8. Struggling with Labor, Working with Identities. (Stephen W. Silliman).

9. Exploring the Institution: Reform, Confinement, Social Change. (Lu Ann De Cunzo).

10. A Class All Its Own: Explorations of Class Formation and Conflict. (LouAnn Wurst).

Part III: World Systems and Local Living.

11. Conquistadors, Plantations, and Quilombo: Latin America in Historical Archaeological Context. Pedro Funari (DH/IFCH/Unicamp).

12. Gold, Black Ivory, and Houses of Stone: Historical Archaeology in Africa. (Innocent Pikirayi).

13. Becoming American: Small Things Remembered. (Diana DiPaolo Loren and Mary C. Beaudry).

14. Mission, Gold, Furs, and Manifest Destiny: Rethinking an Archaeology of Colonialism for Western North America. (Kent G. Lightfoot).

15. Pacific Encounters, or Beyond the Islands of History. (Jane Lydon).

16. The Tide Reversed: Prospects and Potentials for a Postcolonial Archaeology of Europe. (Matthew Johnson).

Index